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As an adult sister-how to get legal custody of 9 year old brother?

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 30, 2010

I’m 23 & have been living on my own and supporting myself since I was 17 years old & I’m doing pretty well.
My mother has always been an extremely abusive alcoholic and when I was a minor she severly physically, mentally, and emotionally abused me. I have a 9 year old half-brother who lives with her(neither of our fathers are in the picture).She doesnt physically abuse him but she neglects him and emotionally abuses him. She is drunk since the early morning sometimes and he is terribly afriad of her and wants to live with me.However, she has a nice home,a car, & makes sure he always has food and clothes.Its more about the fear and lonliness she makes him feel. I want to try to take her to family court to get custody but do I have a case here?The home he lives in is fit and she is able to hide her alcoholism very well and not drink for days at a time, sometimes even weeks.But it always comes back worse then ever. Would I be able to prove she is unfit? Anyone that knows law,please help.

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In australia can a parent go to court and get power of attorney over their adult child?

Posted by admin in Uncategorized on April 26, 2010

In australia can a parent go to court and get power of attorney over their adult child?
my mild intellectually disabled friend has decided to move out of home he’s 24 doesn’t always make the best financial choices sometimes and drinks a lot border-lining on alcoholism because his parents insist on controlling his life, they give him little or no say in anything and make decisions and choices for him that he gets no say in, they don’t listen to him which is why he wants to move out so he can be independent.

he’s now telling me that because he has decided to move out on his own his parents have decided to take him to court to get power of attorney.

can they do that?
is there any basis to their argument if they base their reason on his disability?
can the fact that they take money off him and give him very little to spend and his money is placed in his mother’s name and she won’t give it to him even though she promised to when he hit 21 be used as an argument in his defence?
could it also be used in his defence that the reason he can’t handle money is because he really hasn’t had any (see point above) to learn how to control it?

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